Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.| NiCHE
Amid wildfire smoke, assembling a vintage toy racetrack evokes reflections on U.S. militarism, consumer culture, and the erasure of northern Canadian histories.| NiCHE
Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.| NiCHE
In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their efforts.| NiCHE
This call for papers invites participants to consider the way conceptions of self and other change over time, their tensions, and mediations.| NiCHE
Le camp d'internement de Kapuskasing (1914-1920) accueillait principalement des civils ukrainiens, les forçant à travailler dans des conditions difficiles ; les archives préservent les points de vue des internés et des gardes.| NiCHE
Kapuskasing internment camp (1914–1920) confined mainly Ukrainian civilians, forcing labour under harsh conditions; archival records preserve internee and guard perspectives.| NiCHE
Urban and Environmental Dialogues will explore how the environment-at-large and the urban built environment have shaped one another throughout history.| NiCHE
Ice Geographies examines Arctic colonial politics, emphasizing ice as racialized geography, Indigenous knowledge, slowness, and questioning certainty in research practices.| NiCHE
Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing and dulse industries.| NiCHE
September - November 2025 - Hybrid - University of Guelph’s Rural History Roundtable 2025; includes talks on Green Gables, Ontario wine, WWII militarization, and raw milk debates.| NiCHE
Digitizing Toyokuni IV’s 1872 board game, scholars recreated Yokohama’s hybrid modernity, blending history, travel, and playful discovery for students.| NiCHE
Station Eleven reframes contagion as infrastructural collapse, exposing ecological and logistical fragility.| NiCHE
Once vital for freight and passengers, Nova Scotia’s Blueberry Express railway now thrives as a scenic multi-use trail celebrating local heritage.| NiCHE
Barachois - this word evokes a brackish wetland with a retro littoral zone, separated from the sea by a barrier (of pebbles, sand, or mixed substrate) but connected by a channel (a goulet, or grau).| NiCHE
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.| NiCHE
